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What does it take to build an AI scientist? 🧪🤖 In our latest episode, Allison Duettmann talks with Andrew White 🐦‍⬛, co-founder of FutureHouse, about automating scientific discovery, finding new treatments for blindness, and why the entire scientific publishing system needs a

Highly recommend checking out the comments and predictions on our Metaculus forecasting questions on the AI Pathways project: metaculus.com/tournament/for… There's also the $5k commenting prize, so make sure to add your thoughts if you have any!

The entire software industry is just 2% of the global economy. What about the other 98%? In our new episode, hacker and inventor Pablos Holman makes the case for Deep Tech, using our modern toolkit to solve real-world problems in energy, shipping, and manufacturing. Listen to

Is code a liberal art? A tool for thought? A form of magic? 🪄 In our new episode, Beatrice talks with Samuel Arbesman of Lux Capital about his book "The Magic of Code", AI for scientific discovery, "vibe coding," and building a more humane technological future, and more! Listen

What does it take to build the best possible future? A very #ExistentialHope question! In our new episode, @FinMoorhouse of Forethought argues we must focus on flourishing, not just survival. We explore moral catastrophes, digital minds, and the path to a "Viatopia." An

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I am so excited for this!!! 10k prize from Foresight Institute Existential Hope for the winner of this contest I'd love love love to see more memes capturing visions for a positive future 😍 please help share! i know one of y'all memelords can come up with something amazing

$10k from Existential Hope / Foresight Institute for the best new meme that conveys a positive future. What's the opposite of the shoggoth or the Matrix? I'll be a judge in this contest:

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What could a good AI future actually look like? In our latest episode, we asked Nathan Labenz of The Cognitive Revolution podcast to paint a picture. We cover self-driving cars, curing disease, AI-powered education, and why a "positive vision" is our most vital resource right now.

Things that were once considered inevitable by very large groups of people: - Rule by kings - Almost every family losing a child to disease or hunger - War as the main way to settle disputes between countries - Overpopulation leading to mass starvation - Widespread

In this episode of the Existential Hope podcast, we speak with David Duvenaud (University of Toronto, Anthropic) about: - Why no one has a plan for post-AGI futures - Gradual disempowerment and why UBI may not save us - When human values clash with machine incentives - Forecasting & Robin

There isn't some mysterious force that's just guaranteed to make things better and better. That's not the way the universe works. In fact, quite the contrary, the universe kind of tries to grind us down. And if we've made progress, it's because of human efforts. (From the

As AI reshapes our world, which stories will guide humanity through the transition? Ken Liu – Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award winner, translator of The Three-Body Problem, and author of the Dandelion Dynasty – joins the Existential Hope podcast to explore sci-fi as modern